I am working on a new wordpress theme right now and I hope it comes out well, because grunge is a new style for me. The name of the new wp theme is Grunge Sensation and at this stage I am trying to make the header look nice by changing colors and adding new stuff to it. You can see a sneak preview of the header bellow (click on the image to enlarge):
Also with this occasion I wanted to ask you, because it’s a free wordpress theme, how would you like the sidebar, so here is a little pool:
There is an old saying in internet marketing that “Content is king” but bloggers nowadays have a big problem with getting information, so some of them give up writing articles for this particular reason (I am talking about niche blogs). I had the same problem a year ago, but today I can say that there are so many ways to stay informed and you can blog about anything, because you only need a main idea and a few more resources to write a great article for your niche blog. So from my experience here are a few methods to keep up to date with the new information from your niche.
Google news or blogsearch – great tools in combination with any feed reader
Yes, google news because it provides fresh information every hour, day and in combination with a rss feed reader you are ready anytime to write on your blog about anything. All you need is a keyword in which you are interested in (from your niche) and the fresh news will be brought into your reader. I made a little video tutorial so you can see the exact steps for this method though it’s really simple:
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This method with only one keyword rss feed can be used also with all the social bookmarking websites like digg, propeller, technorati etc and the good part about it is that you can keep in touch with blogs from your niche.
A month ago I wrote an article about my technorati authority and rank increase from 0 to 85 and 300k to 81k, respectively. Now after releasing two more wordpress themes, my authority has increased to 250 and my rank to 21k, even thought in the last period I was a lazy blogger with only a few posts on this blog.
Now most of you will say that the technorati authority and rank numbers are not so important, but you should take them in consideration. Why? Well here’s why:
Potential sponsores for your blog
Because a lot of potential sponsors first look at your alexa rank, then at your google pagerank and after at your technorati rank and authority; at least that’s how I would do if I was in search of reviews or ad banners for my products or blog.
Technorati drives traffic to your blog
The higher your rank and authority is, the more chances you have to get your blog exposed in technorati searches. This means that you have a chance of getting traffic from them. I remember a year ago I had a celebrity blog (it has a new owner now) and because I had the habit to use technorati tags with common names like Britney Spears, Parish Hilton, I’d received a lot of traffic from them, around 100-200 visits.
More rss readers for your blog
From my experience a lot of the people that come from technorati, convert into rss readers because most of them look for blogs that are in the same niche as them. It is a fact that Technorati.com is the second tool after Google’s blogsearch and I confess that most of the blogs I am reading now via google reader, I’ve discovered them with this tool and I think that bloggers do the same.
So above you have a few of the benefits, now here are a few methods to increase your technorati rank and authority: Read the rest of this entry »
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A month ago I wrote an article about my 